Characters In The Novel The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

In life, we often make choices which change our lives. Whether it’s going to college or moving to another state. At times we are often put through certain scenarios in which we have to choose something. The same situations can be said for characters in a book. In every story there comes a point in which a character has made decisions. In the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, many interesting characters are introduced. When reading this novel it comes to attention about his split personality with Mr.Hyde. The two personalities frequently make choices which make the novel suspenseful. So what choices do they make? The character Dr.Jekyll makes certain choices which determine his fate as well as others while and resorting to his

Dr.Jekyll is clever to keep another disguise. He was lucky to even get away with murder even though he wasn’t in his right state of mind. Dr.Jekyll describes making a will for himself. He says,“I next drew up that will to which you so much objected; so that if anything befell me in the person of Dr. Jekyll, I could enter on that of Edward Hyde without pecuniary loss” (Stevenson 80). Dr.Jekyll is very clever because if he was caught in a horrible situation he could change personalities. One of the factors that change the story is the fact that Dr.Jekyll decides to switch every so often to his darker personality. He says,“Between these two, I now felt I had to choose. My two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them” (Stevenson 84). He often feels the need to pick a personality that would suit him for the moment. He even chooses to be the friendly doctor around friends. Dr.Jekyll says, “Yes, I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor, surrounded by friends and cherishing honest hopes... I made this choice perhaps with some unconscious reservation, for I neither gave up the house in Soho nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde, which still lay ready in my cabinet” (Stevenson 85). He explains he unconsciously driven to mostly stay as Dr.Jekyll but never gave up the belongings of

Hyde chooses to kill an innocent man towards the middle of the novel. Dr.Jekyll says in his letter, “Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delighted from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror” (Stevenson 87). I don’t think there was no real motive behind this act, but Dr.Jekyll felt really guilty and shocked by what happened. Another incident occurs when Mr.Hyde knocks over a child. He ends up deciding to pay the people under Dr.Jekyll’s name which becomes suspicious to Utterson. I feel bad that at times Dr.Jekyll has to pay the consequences for Mr.Hyde’s